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Fueling growth when oil peaks : directed technological change and the limits to efficiency

Jarque Andrés, Francisco; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous growth model that reconciles the current aggregate...

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Market liberalization in the European natural gas market : the importance of capacity constraints and efficiency differences

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2009

In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...

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Assessing EU merger control through compensating efficiencies

Affeldt, Pauline Luise; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; … - 2021

Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for...

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Efficiency of European universities : a comparison of peers

Herberholz, Lars; Wigger, Berthold U. - 2020

efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014. The novelty of our approach lies in its extended coverage of …. Exploring potential efficiency drivers, we uncover considerable effect heterogeneity between subject clusters, which is … seek external funding are largely identified to be primary efficiency drivers. …

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European SMEs and resource efficiency measures : firm characteristics and contextual factors

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Donati, Cristiana; Spagnolo, … - 2023

and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly …

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Banking permits : economic efficiency and distributional effects

Bosetti, Valentina (contributor); Carraro, Carlo (contributor) - 2008

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Internationally coordinated emission permit policies : an option for withdrawers from the Kyoto protocol?

Bednar-Friedl, Birgit; Farmer, Karl - 2009

This paper investigates the welfare costs of unilateral versus internationally coordinated emission permit policies in a two-country overlapping generations model with producer carbon emissions. We show that, for a net foreign debtor country, the domestic welfare costs of a unilateral domestic...

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Agreeing on efficient emissions reduction

Bos, Olivier; Roussillon, Béatrice; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013

infracting upon productive efficiency. The mechanism employs a contest creating incentives among participating nations to …

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Does competition justify inequality?

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2015

Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can have severe economic consequences, as they may cause counterproductive behavior such as rulebook slowdowns or quality shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with...

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A look upstream : electricity market restructuring, risk, procurement contracts and efficiency

Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; Lazarova, Emiliya A. - 2014 - This version: November 25, 2014

investigate the impact this change in procurement contracts has on efficiency. Focusing on coal mines, we find that those selling …

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